Demoing Heli Heroes

The action game, developed by Reality Pump, portrays a future where the United States and Soviet Union have grown complacent and allowed the bulk of their offensive and defensive capabilities to be controlled by computers. That's always a smart thing to do. Since I can't even run MS Word without crashing my machine into oblivion, I'll assume that wasn't the best of ideas.

Now, as either the pilot of a Russian or American chopper you must fly around and shoot, hopefully at the bad guys. Though portrayed from a top-down perspective, Heli Heroes is entirely rendered in 3D, but still hearkens back to classic shooters of past by placing explicit priority on the earning of points and destruction of countless things, like the keyboard if you bite it thirty seconds from beating the game.

If there's one thing I've learned from cinema it's that you don't let computers control jack, otherwise they'll fanatically try and kill you or worship you as gods, and then try and kill you.